"Found in the huge double barrow in which the heathen king
Gorm the Old, founder of the Danish monarchy (c. 900-936), and his Christian wife
Thyra, were buried side by side at
Jelling at Jutland. [...] The cup is of silver, gilt inside, and ornamented with an old half mythological pattern of twisted snakes and fantastic animals."
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